RENE

First name RENE's origin is Other. RENE
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noun (n.) A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type.

crenel

noun (n.) See Crenelle.

noun (n.) An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.

noun (n.) Same as Crenature.

crenelating

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crenelate

crenelation

noun (n.) The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.

crenelle

noun (n.) Alt. of Crenel

crenelled

adjective (a.) Same as Crenate.

demureness

noun (n.) The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.

direness

noun (n.) Terribleness; horror; woefulness.

durene

noun (n.) A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.

entireness

noun (n.) The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge.

noun (n.) Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty.

noun (n.) Oneness; unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association.

(pl. ) of Entirety

entrepreneur

noun (n.) One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed.

everywhereness

noun (n.) Ubiquity; omnipresence.

fluorene

noun (n.) A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.

frenetir

adjective (a.) Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic.

frenetical

adjective (a.) Frenetic; frantic; frenzied.

gangrene

noun (n.) A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.

noun (n.) One of the less volatile hydrocarbons of coal tar, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C16H10.

noun (n.) Same as Pyrena.

pyrenean

noun (n.) The Pyrenees.

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain.

rareness

noun (n.) The state or quality of being rare.

renegade

noun (n.) One faithless to principle or party.

noun (n.) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith.

noun (n.) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter.

noun (n.) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.

renegado

noun (n.) See Renegade.

renegat

noun (n.) A renegade.

renegation

noun (n.) A denial.

renewing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Renew

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RENE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ene) - English Words That Ends with ene:

abietene

noun (n.) A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

acetylene

noun (n.) A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.

noun (n.) A crystalline compound used as an antipyretic and analgesic, employed chiefly in rheumatism and neuralgia. It is a complex derivative of quinoline.

bene

noun (n.) See Benne.

noun (n.) A prayer; boon.

noun (n.) Alt. of Ben

benzene

noun (n.) A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum.

butylene

noun (n.) Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.

cacoxene

noun (n.) Alt. of Cacoxenite

cadene

noun (n.) A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant.

cajuputene

noun (n.) A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.

calymene

noun (n.) A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age.

camphene

noun (n.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.

cannabene

noun (n.) A colorless oil obtained from hemp by distillation, and possessing its intoxicating properties.

carvene

noun (n.) An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.

cerotene

noun (n.) A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.

cetene

noun (n.) An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.

chrysene

noun (n.) One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.

cinnamene

noun (n.) Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene.

colophene

noun (n.) A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.

conimene

noun (n.) Same as Olibene.

conylene

noun (n.) An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.

coryphene

noun (n.) A fish of the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin. (2)

cottolene

noun (n.) A product from cotton-seed, used as lard.

crotonylene

noun (n.) A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.

cumene

noun (n.) A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol.

noun (n.) The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts.

elaoptene

noun (n.) See Elaeoptene.

eocene

noun (n.) The Eocene formation.

adjective (a.) Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and alluding to the approximation in its life to that of the present era; as, Eocene deposits.

epicene

noun (a. & n.) Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

noun (a. & n.) Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.

epicoene

adjective (a.) Epicene.

epigene

adjective (a.) Foreign; unnatural; unusual; -- said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found.

adjective (a.) Formed originating on the surface of the earth; -- opposed to hypogene; as, epigene rocks.

essene

noun (n.) One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.

ethene

noun (n.) Ethylene; olefiant gas.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RENE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ren) - Words That Begins with ren:

ren

noun (n.) A run.

verb (v. t. & i.) See Renne.

renable

adjective (a.) Reasonable; also, loquacious.

renaissance

noun (n.) A new birth, or revival.

noun (n.) The transitional movement in Europe, marked by the revival of classical learning and art in Italy in the 15th century, and the similar revival following in other countries.

noun (n.) The style of art which prevailed at this epoch.

renaissant

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Renaissance.

renal

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the kidneys; in the region of the kidneys.

renard

noun (n.) A fox; -- so called in fables or familiar tales, and in poetry.

renardine

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Renard, the fox, or the tales in which Renard is mentioned.

renascence

noun (n.) The state of being renascent.

noun (n.) Same as Renaissance.

renascency

noun (n.) State of being renascent.

renascent

adjective (a.) Springing or rising again into being; being born again, or reproduced.

adjective (a.) See Renaissant.

renascible

adjective (a.) Capable of being reproduced; ablle to spring again into being.

renate

adjective (a.) Born again; regenerate; renewed.

rencontre

noun (n.) Same as Rencounter, n.

rencountering

noun (p. pr. & vb/ n.) of Rencounter

rencounter

noun (n.) A meeting of two persons or bodies; a collision; especially, a meeting in opposition or contest; a combat, action, or engagement.

noun (n.) A causal combat or action; a sudden contest or fight without premeditation, as between individuals or small parties.

verb (v. t.) To meet unexpectedly; to encounter.

verb (v. t.) To attack hand to hand.

verb (v. i.) To meet unexpectedly; to encounter in a hostile manner; to come in collision; to skirmish.

rending

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rend

render

noun (n.) One who rends.

noun (n.) A surrender.

noun (n.) A return; a payment of rent.

noun (n.) An account given; a statement.

verb (v. t.) To return; to pay back; to restore.

verb (v. t.) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.

verb (v. t.) To give up; to yield; to surrender.

verb (v. t.) Hence, to furnish; to contribute.

verb (v. t.) To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.

verb (v. t.) To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.

verb (v. t.) To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.

verb (v. t.) To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner.

verb (v. i.) A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.

verb (v. t.) To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.

verb (v. t.) To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.

verb (v. t.) To rumple; to crumple.

race

noun (n.) A root.

noun (n.) The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.

noun (n.) Company; herd; breed.

noun (n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.

noun (n.) Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.

noun (n.) Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.

noun (n.) A progress; a course; a movement or progression.

noun (n.) Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.

noun (n.) Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.

noun (n.) Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.

noun (n.) A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.

noun (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.

noun (n.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.

verb (v. t.) To raze.

verb (v. i.) To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.

verb (v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.

verb (v. t.) To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.

verb (v. t.) To run a race with.

() A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests.

racemate

noun (n.) A salt of racemic acid.

raceme

noun (n.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.

racemose

adjective (a.) Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme.

racemule

noun (n.) A little raceme.

racemulose

adjective (a.) Growing in very small racemes.

rache

noun (n.) A dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound.

rachitome

noun (n.) A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal.

racle

adjective (a.) See Rakel.

raddle

noun (n.) A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.

noun (n.) A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge.

noun (n.) An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.

noun (n.) A red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical processes; ruddle.

verb (v. t.) To interweave or twist together.

verb (v. t.) To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle.

rade

noun (n.) A raid.

radiale

noun (n.) The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.

noun (n.) Radial plates in the calyx of a crinoid.

radiance

noun (n.) Alt. of Radiancy

radiate

noun (n.) One of the Radiata.

adjective (a.) Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated; as, a radiate crystal.

adjective (a.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.

adjective (a.) Belonging to the Radiata.

verb (v. i.) To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.

verb (v. i.) To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat.

verb (v. t.) To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points; as, to radiate heat.

verb (v. t.) To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate.

radiative

adjective (a.) Capable of radiating; acting by radiation.

radicate

adjective (a.) Radicated.

verb (v. i.) To take root; to become rooted.

verb (v. t.) To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root.

radicle

noun (n.) The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle.

noun (n.) A rootlet; a radicel.

radicule

noun (n.) A radicle.

radiculose

adjective (a.) Producing numerous radicles, or rootlets.

radiolite

noun (n.) A hippurite.

radiophone

noun (n.) An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of luminous or thermal rays. It is essentially the same as the photophone.

raffaelesque

adjective (a.) Raphaelesque.

raffinose

noun (n.) A colorless crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained from the molasses of the sugar beet.

noun (n.) The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.

noun (n.) To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.

noun (n.) To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.

noun (n.) To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.

noun (n.) To toy or act wantonly; to sport.

verb (v. t.) To enrage.

raggie

adjective (a.) Alt. of Raggy

raiae

noun (n. pl.) The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajae, and Rajii.

raisable

adjective (a.) Capable of being raised.

raisonne

adjective (a.) Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne. See under Catalogue.

rake

noun (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.

noun (n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.

noun (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.

noun (n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.

noun (n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.

noun (n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.

verb (v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.

verb (v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.

verb (v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.

verb (v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.

verb (v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.

verb (v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.

verb (v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.

noun (n.) An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.

ralliance

noun (n.) The act of rallying.

ralline

adjective (a.) Pertaining to the rails.

ralstonite

noun (n.) A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.

ramage

noun (n.) Boughs or branches.

noun (n.) Warbling of birds in trees.

adjective (a.) Wild; untamed.

ramberge

noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of large war galley.

ramble

noun (n.) A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.

noun (n.) A bed of shale over the seam.

verb (v. i.) To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.

verb (v. i.) To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.

verb (v. i.) To extend or grow at random.

rambooze

noun (n.) A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc.

ramee

noun (n.) See Ramie.

ramie

noun (n.) The grass-cloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.

ramline

noun (n.) A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel.

ramollescence

noun (n.) A softening or mollifying.

ramose

adjective (a.) Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy.

rampe

noun (n.) The cuckoopint.

rampire

noun (n.) A rampart.

verb (v. t.) To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire.

ramshackle

adjective (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.

verb (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.

ramulose

adjective (a.) Having many small branches, or ramuli.

ramuscule

noun (n.) A small ramus, or branch.

rance

noun (n.) A prop or shore.

noun (n.) A round between the legs of a chair.

ranee

noun (n.) Same as Rani.

ranforce

noun (n.) See Re/nforce.

range

noun (n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

noun (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.

noun (n.) To separate into parts; to sift.

noun (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.

noun (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.

noun (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.

noun (n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.

verb (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.

verb (v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.

verb (v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.

verb (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.

verb (v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.

verb (v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.

verb (v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.

verb (v.) The step of a ladder; a rung.

verb (v.) A kitchen grate.

verb (v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.

verb (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.

verb (v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.

verb (v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.

verb (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.

verb (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.

verb (v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.

verb (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.

verb (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.

verb (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.

verb (v.) See Range of cable, below.

ranine

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.

adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.

rankle

adjective (a.) To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.

adjective (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.

verb (v. t.) To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.

ransomable

adjective (a.) Such as can be ransomed.

rantipole

noun (n.) A wild, romping young person.

adjective (a.) Wild; roving; rakish.

verb (v. i.) To act like a rantipole.

raparee

noun (n.) See Rapparee.

rape

noun (n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.

noun (n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.

noun (n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.

noun (n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.

noun (n.) That which is snatched away.

noun (n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.

noun (n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.

noun (n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.

verb (v. t.) To commit rape upon; to ravish.

verb (v. i.) To rob; to pillage.

raphaelesque

adjective (a.) Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.

raphaelite

noun (n.) One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.

raphe

noun (n.) A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.

noun (n.) Same as Rhaphe.

rapine

noun (n.) The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.

noun (n.) Ravishment; rape.

verb (v. t.) To plunder.

rappage

noun (n.) The enlargement of a mold caused by rapping the pattern.

rapparee

noun (n.) A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.

rapture

noun (n.) A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.

noun (n.) The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.

superlative (superl.) Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.

rarefiable

adjective (a.) Capable of being rarefied.

rareripe

noun (n.) An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach.

adjective (a.) Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.

rasante

adjective (a.) Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them.

rase

noun (n.) A scratching out, or erasure.

noun (n.) A slight wound; a scratch.

noun (n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.

verb (v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze.

verb (v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase.

verb (v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.

verb (v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

rasse

noun (n.) A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.

noun (n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.

noun (n.) Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.

noun (n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.

noun (n.) Order; arrangement.

noun (n.) Ratification; approval.

noun (n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.

noun (n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.

noun (n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.

verb (v. t.) To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.

verb (v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.

verb (v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.

verb (v. t.) To ratify.

verb (v. i.) To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.

verb (v. i.) To make an estimate.

rateable

adjective (a.) See Ratable.

rathe

adjective (a.) Coming before others, or before the usual time; early.

adverb (adv.) Early; soon; betimes.

rathripe

noun (n.) A rareripe.

adjective (a.) Rareripe, or early ripe.

ratiocinative

adjective (a.) Characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination; consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a ratiocinative process.

rationale

adjective (a.) An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles themselves.

ratitae

noun (n. pl.) An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples.

ratitate

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.

ratite

noun (n.) One of the Ratitae.

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.

ratsbane

noun (n.) Rat poison; white arsenic.

rattle

noun (n.) A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.

noun (n.) Noisy, rapid talk.

noun (n.) An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.

noun (n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.

noun (n.) A scolding; a sharp rebuke.

noun (n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.

noun (n.) The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.

verb (v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.

verb (v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.

verb (v. i.) To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.

verb (v. t.) To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.

verb (v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.

verb (v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.

verb (v. t.) To scold; to rail at.

rattlemouse

noun (n.) A bat.

rattlepate

noun (n.) A rattlehead.

rattlesnake

noun (n.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang.

ravage

noun (n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.

noun (n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.

rave

noun (n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

verb (v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.

verb (v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously.

verb (v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.

verb (v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.

() imp. of Rive.

ravine

noun (n.) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.

noun (n.) A torrent of water.

noun (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.